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Fourth Circuit orders hearings on wiretap evidence in Islamic scholar conviction
The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has ordered US District Judge Leonie Brinkema to hold hearings on whether the National Security Agency used warrantless domestic wiretaps to gather evidence against an Islamic scholar convicted of e (More) |
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Australia Guantanamo detainee Hicks wins appeal in UK citizenship case
The UK Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld a lower court decision [text; JURIST report] holding that Australian terror suspect David Hicks should be granted British citizenship, dismissing an appeal from Britain's Home Office . Hicks has been (More) |
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US pilot reprimanded in Canadian 'friendly fire' deaths sues Air Force for privacy violation
National Guard Major Harry Schmidt is suing the US Air Force for violating his privacy after it published a letter of reprimand for his involvement in a friendly-fire incident in Afghanistan . On April 18, 2002 Schmidt and another pilot killed fou (More) |
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Afghan court sends Christian convert case back for review as release arranged
Afghan officials said Sunday they were preparing to release a man possibly facing the death penalty for converting to Christianity from Islam after a judge sent the case of Abdul Rahman back to prosecutors, ruling that he lacked enough evidence to (More) |
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International brief ~ Afghan citizen faces death penalty for converting to Christianity
Leading Monday's international brief, an Afghani man is on trial for criminal charges punishable by death related to his conversion from Islam to Christianity over 16 years ago while working for a Christian aid organization in Pakistan. Abdul Ra (More) |
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UK decision on Hicks citizenship ruling expected in early April
The UK Home Office Friday presented oral arguments before the UK High Court in its appeal of the Court’s December decision [JURIST report; JURIST document] to require the British government to register Guantanamo detainee David Hicks as a B (More) |
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The UN Guantanamo Report: False Premise, Flawed Conclusions
JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law, formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, says the recent report by UN Special Rapporteurs condemning the US detention camp at (More) |
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Iraq hangs 13 in first execution of insurgents
An official of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council has confirmed that Iraqi authorities executed 13 insurgents by hanging Thursday in Baghdad, the first official executions of insurgents carried out in the country since the restoration of the death (More) |
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Adel's Anniversary: A Guantanamo Tale
JURIST Special Guest Columnist P. Sabin Willett, a partner at Bingham McCutchen, LLP, working pro bono with a team of Bingham lawyers in the Guantanamo habeas litigation, says that the detention of a Chinese Uighur is just one proof that the general, (More) |
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Five former Guantanamo detainees freed on bail in Kuwait
Five Kuwait citizens, previously held captive by the US at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, were released on bail from police custody in Kuwait on Sunday. The five were released on bail after denying the charges against them, which include jo (More) |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying
On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death after a treason trial in which they were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Learn more about the Rosenberg trial.
